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Yes, I witnessed the entire episode. It wasn't even a drawbar. It was a broken knuckle. The interesting thing is they called a carman to change it. The crossing were blocked about an hour waiting on the car knocker, who took five minutes to change it. Not much happening around here these days, except the thugs are stealing everything we have to buy dope! From: dr strangelove <kaiserwillieii0815@yahoo.com> To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, July 20, 2012 6:12 AM Subject: [CBQ] This is news??? I caught the Facebook news feed of the local station, WSIL,from back home in southern Illinois and saw this ...
"Witnesses say train cars come apart on tracks in Zeigler" There was also a picture of a coal hopper (I guess they are gondolas nowadays??) They actually sent a news team to investigate the "incident". I don't know if this is more a reflection of modern social media or the lack of people's general knowledge about trains. It seems like when i was a kid this happened quite often and nobody would have paid attention to this. It would be sort of like "Semi has flat tire on back road". How often did this happen back in the old days? I seem to remember the Mopac working on a busted draw bar and/or coupler in Scheller when I was a kid, interesting but not newsworthy. __._,_.___
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